Configuring The Radio To Support Multiple Hosts - GE MDS SD Series Reference Manual

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Alternatively, you may select
mand Line Interface. With a CLI interface, commands are entered in
text-based fashion, as described in APPENDIX-A CLI Scripting Inter-
face.
To change the User Interface setting, proceed as follows:
1. Select
User Interface
field to the right of the item.
2. Press the spacebar until the desired interface type is displayed. Press
the key to apply the change.
ENTER
NOTE: When switching to CLI mode, it is necessary to quit the menu
system by pressing
be received upon log-in, where any valid command may be
entered. (Entering
To return to menu mode, enter

Configuring the Radio to Support Multiple Hosts

A "host" in a telemetry system refers to the polling application and coor-
dinates the routing of data between the master unit site and the remote
locations. Many systems employ only one host computer, and no special
settings beyond the default menu selections are needed.
In some systems, however, multiple host applications (possibly on dif-
ferent computers) may be operating at the master unit site. These com-
puters can be running completely separate data streams, and yet both can
use the SD Transceiver to communicate their data to and from the data
equipment at associated remote sites. This is accomplished by con-
necting each host to one of the data interface ports on the SD transceiver.
Multihost configuration is only set at the Master site. Enabling Multi-
host causes the radio to allow single poll response transactions in a
"round-robin" fashion on each enabled port. The ports can be physical
ports like and
COM1 COM2
radio's one physical LAN connection).
The Multihost Settings Menu (Figure 43) is used to view or set the mul-
tihost parameters for the radio. This menu may be accessed by the fol-
lowing navigation path:
. To make changes in the settings, proceed as follows:
Settings
1. To enable or disable multihost capability, select
the menu. A flashing cursor appears in the field to the right of the
item.
2. Press the spacebar until the desired selection is shown, and press
to apply the change.
ENTER
, which switches the radio to a Com-
CLI
from the menu. A flashing cursor appears in the
, and then log in again. A
Q
provides a list of all CLI commands.)
help
menu
or Payload ports (up to three, using the
Main Menu>>Device Configuration>>Multihost
prompt will
>>
and log in again.
from
Multihost Enable
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